New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-26
MORE HDRsEs R0ASrBD ALIYB.
A STABLE AND 4 BAKERY BURNED,

yORrY-rHREE HORSES DxAD-How TWO WERE
SAVED BY FIRENKN-LOssss AND INSURANCE..
Firemen in this city likely to remember this year
as the one in which many horses were burned up Sew
eral hundred horses destroyed in the Belt ine
stables and halt hundred were consumed in stables
IN East Twenty third-st ana In Harlem. Yesterday
morning over forty horses vers burned to death In
the threeetory building Nos. 43 and 40 West
Thrteeuth-st The building has been occupied ~ q
stable and branch bakery by Louis F.eischmann, Of
Broadway and Tenth-st Ovens in tho basement were
used to bake homemade" bread and rye
bread. A few wagons and most OF
the harness belonging to Nc. Fisssoa-
kept the irst floor along with about 100
barrels of four while the upper stories were USED -
stables for eighty horsss Some front rooms on the
second floor were occupied e. bedohapesrs BY tho
stablemen. Charles Coop, wssehmsn employed in
the building. saw flames coming UP tho stairway from
the basement about a. m. All the bakers had gone
homo long bef,re aud thirty Of tho horses had
Six staplemen had gone to sleep on tho second door
and forty FIVE horses were In their stas most OF them
" rne dam had started from one Of the ovens in the
basement and the, spread through the building
ra,idiy. Coop out to tins street and got pvsoe
man to send out an alarm. Then be aroused tse
stab emen upstairs Smoke flied the building before
thero was time to any Ut the borses Some OF
the stablemen had to climb out of the window to the
root Of the building No ~ and one OF them Jumped
to the sidewalk from window. After the hrcmen
reached the building they could boar the impssoned
horses laundering about in their stalls There was
no way to belp the unfortunate creatures, ana iof
gushing the nre we'll under way Two OF the
horses broke their matters and made their way
from which the stab.emen had escaped. One OF them
was fne-looking bay and .he other was gray;
They thrust their heads out OF the window and looked
down the crowd IN Thirteenth-st As the fire vas
manly In the of the building the two horses were
not in immediate danger, and this fremen made
determined efforts to Save them. The room In whicn
a. L lulk Enraf Unl HnAdA
with water. fireman went NJ ladder and gave
the horses several good drinks ut water out OF pail
TO keep their courage up and prevent them from
back into the fire. Occasionally the horses would
turn osck into the smoky room, but most VI the tine
they remained With their noses out OF the window
where they could breathe the fresh air; They
steamed although they were drenched freely Win
water from the bose. For nearly three hours tne
horses stayed In the room and behaved admirably
while tho fireman were fighting the flames.
When the tire was out the freinen cleared tho
rubbish away from stairway at the front OF the
building led the two horses down TO the street
Are and Il az said they would be- road, for work in
q tew DAYS. Ii not possible to remove the bodies
of the forty-three burned horses yesterday Inc
loss oil Mr. Flelschmann said to be about Szo,OOO
Hi. property was said to be insured tor $4,000 By
the following companies Guardian OF London. North
ern, London and Liverpool German American, Mes-
chants of Newark, Phenix OF Brooklyn, Tr~nsstlaa-
tic of Hamburg. Hamburg German. Williamsburg
City, Imperial of London, Newark Fire, clinton,
Queen OF London. and tho Fire Insurance Associa-
ton Of London. The building wss owned by L.
Toepts o. No 100 Greene st.. and was said to be m
sursd. IL was damaged to the exteat OF 5000
stock OF carpets In the store OF John and ames Dob
son, at No AZ West Fourtee nth-st. was damaged by
water aud smoke to the extent of about $1,000, and
other losses trom the cause In Fourteenth-sf.
buildings amounted to about % 600. The total loss
by the fire. therefore was about $40. O00 Mr.
Feischman. was about to out of the Thirteenth
st. building to new branch station at Avenue b aud
Eighty -frst-st, and at his main office at broadway
and feminist Ii was said yesterday that the fire
would make only brief delay in has business